Travel Quotes

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine


Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.
Prophet Mohammed

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James Michener

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.John Steinbeck

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
Sir Richard Burton

The journey not the arrival matters.
T. S. Eliot

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert


The wise man travels to discover himself.
James Russell Lowell


The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
G. K. Chesterton

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Carlo Goldoni

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing. Daniel J. Boorstin

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost eveything.
Bill Bryson

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.
Arnold Bennett

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. the great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de St. Exupery

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca


For those who travel alone and are wondering if should like it or dislike it, this quote:

The man who does not like his own company is truly alone.